Re: jpg reader

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Leif Strand (eaiu636@rigel.oac.uci.edu) wrote:
[snip]
: for the GS can't save the conversion, and the GS jpeg-to-gif converters are
: slow and buggy.  So even if there is a jpeg converter/reader for the //e,

The ported djpeg for the GS (if you can find the right one on the ftp sites)
isn't buggy as far as I know, just slow.  Would be faster if some of the
orca/c lib code sped up like string operations and multiplies (working on
that myself but not much time).

: The only problem is that djpeg is apparently not standard on all Unix
: systems.  In the "man" page, there are the following lines:

: >AVAILABILITY
: >     Available on the Suns and Sequents.

: Which I guess is why it's on my computer science account (a Sun account)
: and not on my general university account (neither a Sun nor a Sequent
: account).  I assume if it isn't available on the Unix account you use, you

It all depends on the people maintaining the systems.  Now for ICS and OAC
here, they're both lame.

ICS is very research-oriented and really could care less about user-friendly
and up-to-date software (one professor thinks mh mail is the best thing
since sliced bread).  OAC is very general user oriented so they skimp on
the more interesting programs that are very specific-goal-oriented like sox,
the do-it-all sound conversion utility, or tin as a newsreader instead of
nn/trn/rn.

Joseph
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